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THE ROANOKE R API OS N. C.’s TABloid Picture NEWSpaper — All Home-Print — VOLUME TWENTYTHREE ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. ""_THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1938 NUMBER 51 Shuffleboard Comes To Town.. Champs.. One of the newest and most popular games for Roanoke Rapids is shuffleboard, now being played on a concrete court at Ledger wood Park. Long popular pastime on shipboard and in Florida, the game provides many happy hours for old and young. Pictured above are the Rosemary Shuffle board Champions, the No. 2 Weavers. Left to right: Capt. Virgil McDowell, “Peanut” Odom, Robert Davis, Jack Hale and Doc Miller. _'__. LOCAL RED CROSS TRIPLES QUOTA FOR CHINA AID The Roanoke Rapids Chapter of the American Red Cross was asked by the general chairman in Wash ington to raise $25 as its share of Red Cross contribution to the starv ing and needy in China. The Rev. G. L. Price, local Red Cross chair man, announced today that Roa noke Rapids had contributed a to tal of $73.64 to date to this worthy cause, practically three times the original quota. Chairman Price asked the Girl and Boy Scouts of Roanoke Rapids to solicit at eight places in the city and these boys and girls did a splendid joly for which the Chapter is very appreciative. Chairman Price also desires to thank every contributory as well as the drug stores, theatres and postoffice where the Scouts were stationed. Leaders in the drive were at Roa noke Pharmacy where Angela Har dy, Mary Martin, Mary Raye, Eliza beth Faye and Betty Hawkins col lected $15.05; at Rosemary Drug Co., where Margaret Martin, Eliz abeth Beckwith, Helen Knight, Ma rie Harbour and Marion Boone col lected $14.33 and at the Post Office where Frank Williams Jr., Nick Long, Bobby Kendrick and Dick Wilson reported $12.03. The First Baptist Church gave $15.00 while among those recorded by the Scouts as giving a dollar or more were the names of Miss Rosa Moody $10.00, Judge R. Hunt Par ker, $5.00, Mrs. Bahnson Weathers $5.00; Mr. Hines of Dr.Pepper $2.00, Mrs. R. L. Barrett $1.50, and the following dollar contributions: Mrs. W. J. Womble, F. C. Williams, Lee Wheeden, Ideal Candy Co., W. L. Manning, Dr. T. W. M. Long, Dr. T. J. Taylor, Dr. Crocker Maddrey, John Brantley, Mrs. J. W. Smoot, Mrs. F. G. Jarman, Mrs. R. P. Beckwith. Son Of Local Couple Dies Here Tonight Carlton Wayne Babb, nine months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Babb, 305 Henry St., died at 8:45 o’clock tonight, Thursday, June 30th. Funeral services will be conduct ed from the home Friday afternon at 3 o’clock, with Reverend Gor don Price officiating. Interment will be at Roanoke Rapids Ceme tery. The child is survived by his father and mother; a three-year-old broth er, Terry Allen Babb, and his grandmother, Mr§. Martha Babb, of this city. 10 CASES OF TYPHOID IN COUNTY (SEE PG. 1 SEC. B) CITY BOARD READY TO FILE WPA ASK FOR TENTH STREET I --— Will Stores Close Here July 4th (?) According to a survey conducted by the HERALD yesterday and to day, a great many Roanoke Rap ids merchants are undecided as to whether they will close their stores all day on next Monday, the Fourth of July, remain open for a part of the day, or stay open all day the same as usual. In many instances the only reply of individual merch ants visited was: “I’ll close if the rest of them close,” . . . and so, there it g;oes „ . . In a Bulletin issued the first of the week by the Roanoke Rapids Merchants Association, the follow ing paragraph was contained, with respect to 4th of July closing: “The By-Laws of the Constitu tion of the Merchants Association provide for closing only three days i in the year—Thanksgiving, Christ mas and the 4th of July. In the past we have abided by these dates, but since the 4th comes on Monday this year we have had some dis agreement about closing. Several have said they would not close so we are leaving it up to you—close if you wish hut it will probably not be 100%. We know of several stores that have said they were | going TO CLOSE ANYWAY, and probably by the day of the 4th a good number of stores will be clos ed. The general public usually ex pects you to be closed so there would be little buying.” It would appear, from the Her ald’s survey, that practically all of the city’s dry goods, clothing and department stores will remain clos ed all day on Monday, July 4th, thus affording their employees a full week-end holiday, while many of the grocery stores seem to take the attitude that being closed both Sunday and Monday would work an undue hardship on their customers, and therefore expect to stay open their regular hours Monday. In the meantime, Roanoke Rap ids apparently seems to be making plans for spending a "safe and sane” Fourth, with little or no a musement or attractions in the city or immediate vicinity out of the or dinary, except for the morning and afternoon baseball games. WAVERLY COMING SATURDAY (SEE PAGE 2) An application to WPA for aid on a storm drain age project for Tenth Street between Franklin and Rapids Streets is ready to be filed with WPA authorities by the city of Roanoke Rapids, following action taken by the City Board at its last meeting. The cost of the project has been estimated by Engineer Christie at $8,830.00. with materials: pipe, in lets and manholes at $3,000, labor at $5,400 and other expenses at $430. Of this amount, if the application is approved, WPA would furnish $7,064 and the city would put up $1,766. Mayor Jenkins stated at the meet ing that he had received numerous complaints from residents in that section of city that because of poor drainage the section was flooded in time of rains. He said that after an investigation he found the ex isting pipe was entirely inadequate and recommended the installation of new storm drainage on that por tion of 10th between Franklin and Rapids. 5 SCHOOL TEACHERS IN WRECK As a result of an automobile ac cident at dangerous South Rose mary Corner, five school teachers, enroute from Greensboro, where they were attending summer school, to Newport News, for a week-end with friends, received minor in juries about 3:30 a-m. Saturday. A wrecker from the Service Mo tor Company answered the call and found the car, a small two-door sedan, had crashed into a telephone pole, doing about $200 damage to the car. The passengers escaped with mi nor cuts and bruises, with the ex ception of Miss Margaret Myers, who received a broken arm. She was given emergency treatment at Roanoke Rapids Hospital, but was able to accompany the balance of the party back to Greensboro by train. Druggists Attend State Convention City Druggists O. Griffin and Emmett Matthews attended the State Druggists Convention held in Asheville on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, return* ing to Roanoke Rapids Thursday.
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